Actifio has announced the general availability of Actifio Global Manager (AGM), a web-scale data virtualization solution delivering instant access and radically simple management of application data for business resiliency and test data management across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.

Over the last 6 years, the Actifio copy data virtualization platform has been deployed in many of the world's largest and most complex enterprise IT organizations and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). It has scaled up to thousands of application instances associated with petabytes of data deployed across private data centers, and hybrid or public cloud environments including Amazon AWS. After an extensive early access program, Actifio has released AGM for general availability for these web-scale environments, delivering Actifio's trademark capabilities of instant application data access, for even very large database instances, all driven by Service Level Agreements (SLAs) extending across the full lifecycle of data from production to retirement.

Actifio Global Manager delivers the following key capabilities:

Scale up from one to multiple instances of Actifio quickly and easily, managing thousands of applications, petabytes of data, independent of hardware infrastructure or physical location. AGM can seamlessly manage application data lifecycle across private, public or hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Deliver standardized Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and security models across the enterprise. Ensure that application data is consistently managed by the same SLAs, and users have consistent rights to access only the relevant data, independent of location or organization

Reduce capital and operational expenses for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with a secure multi-tenant, scale-out architecture, which enables operations teams to centrally administer, manage, monitor multiple tenants located anywhere in customer data centers, in MSP's data centers, or in Amazon AWS public cloud.

Simplified capacity management with 'one-click' migration of applications between Actifio appliances, similar to VMware VMotion.

Easy integration by users and MSPs into portals and other custom software via a single, central entry-point and a RESTful API enabling streamlined integration of an entire data virtualization environment with users' business processes and software-defined data center.

Next-generation visualization with a new HTML5 based interface to display timeline-based views of SLAs, backup, replication and other events and alerts from across an enterprise.

New HTML5 Based User Interface with Timeline View

"We've grown rapidly with Actifio, not only adding dozens of new clients to our cloud backup, DR and DevOps services, but also growing our footprint and MRR with existing customers by providing net new services," said Jeremy Wolfram, Director of Development at Net3 Technologies, a Cloud Services Provider. "After doing extensive validation testing of Actifio Global Manager and its RESTful API this year, we are building it into our automation platform, so we can more easily scale and manage the data infrastructure for our growing base of Actifio clients."

David Chang, Senior Vice President of Solutions Development at Actifio, said, "Actifio Global Manager was designed for the rapidly growing footprint of Actifio solutions in user's environments. More of our users have scaled to multi-site, multi-appliance environments and have begun to use public cloud infrastructure like Amazon AWS as a seamless part of their datacenter. AGM delivers unprecedented simplicity of management for these web-scale users. Application data virtualization requires a unique scale-out technology that is all about Applications, Data and SLA's, completely independent of hardware infrastructure and location. Users need to be able to instantly access data and applications from anywhere, be able to migrate, load balance and manage the applications and data, from a single interface. We worked closely with over a hundred of our early access program partners for over two years to deliver a solution that will delight our users. We are incredibly proud of this work, and thrilled with the response we're already getting from users."

"There has been significant work on scaling out hardware platforms in the last few years. When it comes to virtualization, though, scale-out technology is all about software," said Actifio Founder & CEO Ash Ashutosh. "Application data virtualization at web-scale is an order of magnitude more complex problem to address. Actifio Global Manager unshackles the infrastructure dependency and makes it faster and easier for our largest customers and service provider partners to access and manage their data at global web-scale. That's the real power of AGM, and the power of Actifio."

@ThingsExpo - The World's Largest 'Internet of Things' Event, June 7-9 2016 at New York City's Javits Center!

All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.

With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo, June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be.Register for @CloudExpo/@ThingsExpo 'FREE' Before Friday! ▸ Here

Delegates to @ThingsExpo will be able to attend 14 simultaneous, information-packed education tracks.

There are over 120 breakout sessions in all, with Keynotes, General Sessions, and Power Panels adding to three days of incredibly rich presentations and content.

Join @ThingsExpo conference chair Roger Strukhoff (@IoT2040), June 7-9, 2016 in New York City, for three days of intense 'Internet of Things' discussion and focus, including Big Data's indespensable role in IoT, Smart Grids and Industrial Internet of Things, Wearables and Consumer IoT, as well as (new) IoT's use in Vertical Markets.

Speaking Proposals OpenFourth International @ThingsExpo, co-located with 18th International @CloudExpo- being held June 7-9, 2016 at the Javits Center in New York City, announces that its Call for Papers for speaking opportunities is open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.

Sponsorship Opportunities Open@ThingsExpo, June 7-9, 2016 at the Javits Center in New York City, is co-located with 18th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.

Show Me The Money!How We Built and Scaled an IoT Platform and Business

In his keynote at @ThingsExpo, Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, focused on building an IoT platform and company. He provided a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu's platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix acquisition of Octoblu).

@ThingsExpo has been named the Top Most Influential Internet of Things'Media Brand' by Onalytica in the ‘The Internet of Things Landscape 2015: Top 100 Individuals and Brands.'

Onalytica analyzed Twitter conversations around the IoT debate to uncover the most influential brands and individuals driving the conversation.

Intel and Cisco have been named the world's most influential IoT brands, followed by SYS-CON Media's global IoT event, @ThingsExpo as the world's most influential IoT media brand. [continued]

New York and Silicon Valley Sponsors and ExhibitorsDuring our last New York and Silicon Valley events, over 12,000 (audited) delegates registered and participated at @ThingsExpo, in the world's largest 'Internet of Things'event, colocated with @CloudExpo. Our conference delegates met with over 160 of the world's leading technology pioneers that were among the sponsors and exhibitors, including:

Our Demo Theater on the Expo Floor attracts more delegates than the entire conference of other events

@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo Has Been a Must-Attend Event for EricssonThis week, the team assembled in NYC for @Cloud Expo 2015 and @ThingsExpo 2015. For the past four years, this has been a must-attend event for MetraTech. We were happy to once again join industry visionaries, colleagues, customers and even competitors to share and explore the ways in which the Internet of Things (IoT) will impact our industry. Over the course of the show, we discussed the types of challenges we will collectively need to solve to capitalize on the opportunity IoT presents. [continued]